On pristine white paper, a male portrait emerges as stark opposition: a ferocious crown of midnight-black hair explodes upward and outward in chaotic vertical torrents—dense, jagged strokes overlap into near-opaque thickets that devour light, spike defiantly, and cascade like storm-tangled raven's wings frozen mid-roar.
Below this savage mane, the face dissolves into luminous absence: vast untouched white where features should be, only the faintest horizontal and vertical graphite whispers hint at eyes that gaze, a nose that breathes, a mouth that withholds secrets. No modeled shading or clear contours define the visage; presence is conjured through what is withheld, a spectral calm at the hurricane's eye.
The composition centers this dramatic split—overwhelming dark eruption above, ethereal void below—creating relentless tension between furious accumulation and radical restraint. Graphite's full range (velvety blacks to ghostly traces) heightens the contrast, turning the small sheet into a meditation on revelation through omission.
Notice how the dense, chaotic hair draws the eye upward in violent energy, then releases it downward into silent white—balancing explosive presence with haunting disappearance.
Part of the Force of Nature series, this unique drawing channels raw gesture to evoke the human spirit as emergent apparition: not literal likeness, but a soul caught between savage eruption and quiet dissolution, intensely alive through furious absence.
How does this graphite specter—roaring above, vanishing below—stir your sense of inner turmoil, fragile presence, or the poetry of identity glimpsed through what is left unsaid?
Technical notes.
Unique drawing. Graphite on paper. Unframed dimensions: 14” high x 11” wide. Signed by the artist on the back, dated 2022. Frame not included.
On pristine white paper, a male portrait emerges as stark opposition: a ferocious crown of midnight-black hair explodes upward and outward in chaotic vertical torrents—dense, jagged strokes overlap into near-opaque thickets that devour light, spike defiantly, and cascade like storm-tangled raven's wings frozen mid-roar.
Below this savage mane, the face dissolves into luminous absence: vast untouched white where features should be, only the faintest horizontal and vertical graphite whispers hint at eyes that gaze, a nose that breathes, a mouth that withholds secrets. No modeled shading or clear contours define the visage; presence is conjured through what is withheld, a spectral calm at the hurricane's eye.
The composition centers this dramatic split—overwhelming dark eruption above, ethereal void below—creating relentless tension between furious accumulation and radical restraint. Graphite's full range (velvety blacks to ghostly traces) heightens the contrast, turning the small sheet into a meditation on revelation through omission.
Notice how the dense, chaotic hair draws the eye upward in violent energy, then releases it downward into silent white—balancing explosive presence with haunting disappearance.
Part of the Force of Nature series, this unique drawing channels raw gesture to evoke the human spirit as emergent apparition: not literal likeness, but a soul caught between savage eruption and quiet dissolution, intensely alive through furious absence.
How does this graphite specter—roaring above, vanishing below—stir your sense of inner turmoil, fragile presence, or the poetry of identity glimpsed through what is left unsaid?
Technical notes.
Unique drawing. Graphite on paper. Unframed dimensions: 14” high x 11” wide. Signed by the artist on the back, dated 2022. Frame not included.
